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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Security increased at Flinders Medical Centre amid reports women being stalked
- Headline: Albury Wodonga Health applies for funding for safe rooms to protect staff
- Headline: Lismore mayor responds to nurses’ parking complaints
- Headline: Emergency presentations at hospital increased by 8.7%
- Headline: Queensland surgery deaths audit offers rare glimpse into medical mistakes
- Headline: Hospitals could be forced to report patient outcomes
Canada
- Headline: Overcrowded hospitals plagued by 'hallway nursing'
- Titre: Des cliniques dénoncent le manque de médecins à Montréal-Nord
Headline: Clinics denounce the lack of doctors in Montréal-Nord - Titre: Le CISSSAT s’engage à réduire l’utilisation d’infirmières externes
Headline: CISSSAT commits to reduce the use of external nurses - Titre: Un système de triade, mais pas plus de personnel
Headline: A triad system, but not more staff
Honduras
Ireland
- Headline: A record 8,154 on hospital trolleys
- Headline: INMO figures confirm record levels of overcrowding in hospitals
- Headline: "Acute and long-term beds are closed in Donegal due to nurse shortages" - INMO reveal record overcrowding levels
- Headline: Activists urge rejection of new public pay deal
- Headline: Australia top destination for Irish nurses working abroad
- Headline: Irish patients to lose access to surgery services in the UK
- Headline: Number of patients on trolleys at University Hospital 'doubles in one year'
- Headline: Latest figures reveal 303 people are on trolleys in Irish hospitals right now
- Headline: Trolley crisis ‘mayhem’ revealed as Irish mum tells of sleeping on A&E chair while shameless drug dealers target vulnerable patients
- Headline: Campaigners urge public service staff to reject pay agreement
Kenya
- Headline: Kenya: Nurses to Confirm Union Membership as Remittance Stopped
- Headline: CoG directs all county bosses to stop remittances to nurses’ union
- Headline: Striking nurses accuse SRC of unfair treatment
New Zealand
- Headline: DHB nurse pay talks underway: safe staffing top of agenda
- Headline: Funding changes leave health boards scrambling to reconfigure budgets
Portugal
South Africa
South Africa
- Headline: Nursing union fury at Council’s cancellation of nursing exams
- Headline: DENOSA commences legal action against SANC on cancelled exams for student nurses doing bridging course
Spain
- Titular: Manuel Cascos, nuevo presidente del Sindicato de Enfermería Satse
Headline: Manuel Cascos, new president of the Nursing Union Satse - Titular: El sindicato de Enfermería SATSE elige a Manuel Cascos como nuevo presidente, en sustitución de Víctor Aznar
Headline: The SATSE nursing union elects Manuel Cascos as the new president, replacing Victor Aznar - Titular: SATSE se marca como objetivo que las plantillas de Enfermería se basen en “necesidades reales”
Headline: SATSE designated the objective of Nursing staff to be based on "real needs" - Titular: SATSE denuncia la falta de enfermeras en la planta de Medicina Interna del Hospital de Tomelloso
Headline: SATSE denounces the lack of nurses in the internal medicine unit of Tomelloso Hospital - Titular: Satse denuncia un nuevo traslado «precipitado» del centro de orientación familiar
Headline: Satse denounces a new "hasty" transfer from the family counseling center - Titular: "Sí se han estropeado medicinas"
Headline: "Yes, medicines have been spoiled" - Titular: SATSE critica que haya cinco alas sin climatización en el Clínico
Headline: SATSE criticizes that there are five wings without air conditioning in the Clinic - Titular: Más recursos, pero insuficientes
Headline: More resources, but insufficient - Titular: Marea Blanca avisa del «colapso» en las urgencias sanitarias
Headline: Marea Blanca warns of "collapse" in health emergencies
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurses are organising a 'summer of protests' over pay
- Headline: Nurses Named In Queen’s Birthday Honours List
- Headline: Jeremy Corbyn vows to 'force an early election' as poll names him public's favourite for Prime Minister
United States
- Headline: Opinion: California has a cure for bad health coverage
- Headline: Senate GOP healthcare bill is lethal for the poor and elderly. The answer is Medicare-for-All.
- Headline: Rally held for Holy Cross Hospital nurse many believe was wrongfully fired
- Headline: Making the Case for Single Payer Health Care in California
- Headline: A 'Revolution' Grows in Chicago
- Headline: After 4 special election losses, panic is setting in on the left
- Headline: SB562 would bring health care, not just insurance, to all Californians
- Headline: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center to close radiation oncology department
- Headline: Do We Really Need A Middleman In Our Broken Health Care System?
- Headline: The Fight Within the Democratic Party Over California Universal Health Insurance Plan
- Headline: The Single-Payer Breakthrough in California: Robert Pollin on the Economics of Universal Care
- Headline: Democrats look to bridge divide as they challenge Trump
- Headline: Single-payer healthcare for California is, in fact, very doable
- Headline: Nurses Pay Off Medical Debt For 1,800 Minnesota Families
- Headline: Minnesota Nurses Pay it Forward, Help Struggling Patients with Medical Debt
- Headline: Minnesota nurses to pay off $2.6 million in medical debts for 1,800 patients
- Headline: Minnesota nurses to pay off medical debts for 1,800 patients
- Headline: Minnesota nurses to honor Allina strike with $2.6M in patient debt relief
- Headline: Nurses buy – and forgive – $2.6 million in medical debt for Minnesotans
- Headline: MN nurses will give debt relief to needy patients
- Headline: Poor People Aren’t Involved in Politics. Can Activists Change That?